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Stage 14 - Lake Conjola to Ulladulla

After our R & R, Trevor drove us back to the point where he had picked us up at Lake Conjola. Lake Conjola is one of the more beautiful of the coastal lakes; cutting deep inland and surrounded by the beautiful tall forests of Conjola National Park. The drive in through this forest enabled us to appreciate part of the coast that we would otherwise have missed.

Leaving Trevor, we climbed up and over a boardwalk through thick coastal forest on to the sweeping expanse of Conjola Beach and headed south. Midway we cut inland for a kilometre to parallel the beach along a cycad-lined track under a eucalypt, banksia and melaleuca canopy.

The solitude of Conjola Beach

Lake Conjola

The boardwalk provides wheelchair access
to Conjola Beach

Burrawang (cycad) lined path behind the first line of
sand dunes

Narawallee Inlet

Not long after returning to the beach we reached the mouth of Narawallee inlet, our second unassisted water crossing. Fortunately, it was low tide and reconnaissance of the entrance showed that swimming was not necessary – we were able to wade across chest-deep carrying our gear on our shoulders.

Crossing Narrawallee Inlet

Blue mud crabs

Narrawallee Inlet marked the start of a long stretch of coastal development and we passed by the beach houses and larger residences of Narrawallee, Mollymook and finally Ulladulla. It was clear why people would want to live in this part of the coast with its beautiful beaches and spectacular rock shelves and headlands.

Mollymook Beach

Rock garden south of Mollymook

Some desirable coastal real estate

Ulladulla Head, in particular, is worth a visit for the cultural / historical walk, featuring wood carvings by a local aboriginal artist describing the history of the Budawang people of Gnulla Dulla, complemented by thought-provoking commentary on the impact of white settlement.

Blue-tongue lizard at Ulladulla Head

Aboriginal wood carvings at the the Cultural Walk on Ulladulla Head

Ulladulla Harbour

We crossed the picturesque boat harbour and climbed back up to the Ulladulla Headland Tourist Park and Trevor's cabin. The three of us sat on the deck of Trevor's cabin in the late afternoon sun, reminiscing with a gin and tonic while watching and listening to the passing parade of lorikeets, crimson rosellas, corellas, wattlebirds, magpies, peewees, crested pigeons, spur-winged plovers and kookaburras.

Life seemed very good.

Ulladulla sunset

A few portraits of feathered friends from Ulladulla

Rainbow lorikeet

Kookaburra

Little corella


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